The construction of a miscellaneous library was really not planned by Guo Dan early on, he had so many things to deal with, where could he take care of these details.

This is really the inspiration that Xu Guangqi gave him.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, there is no soil for cultivating technical talents, and all state capitals are all Bagu Wen, but the talents of Bagu Wen have no place in Weihui Mansion, which can only be cultivated by Weihui Mansion itself, anyway, Weihui Mansion has also canceled various imperial examinations, because this matter was originally done by the government, but now Weihui Mansion has no official government, Guo Danke is not qualified to contract the imperial examination, and can only go to Kaifeng Mansion to take the examination.

In fact, most of the scholars have already left Weihui Mansion, because the beliefs of the scholars make them not allow themselves to stay in a place managed by merchants, and only a small number of people stay in the Litigation Court, of course, the emergence of the Litigation Court has also attracted many scholars to return to Weihui Mansion.

The previous temple education could only cultivate basic talents, that is, they could read and write and do arithmetic, but professional talents could not be cultivated for the time being, because the market currently needed labor, and it was impossible to say that everyone could study and study until they were eighteen or twenty years old before going to work.

In addition, if the construction of professional colleges, if it is not free, people cannot afford to study; If it's free, Guo Dan can't afford it, and professional education costs a lot of money.

Taking a step back, even if Guo Dan is willing to lose money, he can't hire a teacher, and there is a very embarrassing place in the current education, that is, there is no culture with technology, and there is no technology with culture.

Building a miscellaneous library is actually a way for those who wish to take the bait, the miscellaneous library is dead, it is passive, it is different from education, education is active, students are passive, Guo Dan hopes that there are geniuses in this area who can stand out by themselves.

Knowledge needs to be accumulated, so no one can make education a step to the top.

But something is imminent.

Guo Dan, who returned to Weihui Mansion, did not even enter the city, but rushed directly to the Marseille transportation headquarters on the edge of the Wei River.

Although there is no brand concept in this era, Guo Dan habitually attaches great importance to the brand, but whenever he uses Wanli's money to do business, there is basically a "Marseille" signboard in front of him.

And now in charge of the transportation of Weihui Mansion is Li Tong, a tooth man from Linqing.

At the beginning, he wanted to contract the transportation of Weihui Mansion, but he was "unfortunately" recruited by Guo Dan, because Guo Dan gave him a platform that he could not imagine before.

"Proprietor, this is the transportation plan I have planned these days."

Li Tong pointed to a map that seemed to Guo Dan to be full of ancient atmosphere, and introduced it to Guo Dan in great detail.

He still adheres to his philosophy, which is to adopt segmented transportation, spend more time collecting information, make full use of all kinds of resources to reduce transportation costs, and set up his own warehouses in the transportation fortress, so that the goods are produced from Weihui Mansion and shipped out first, rather than all the production and then transportation, so that more ships can be used, and the burden on the river can be reduced, after all, they still have to give way to transportation.

Guo Dan sat aside, listening and thinking.

For Weihui Mansion, transportation is very important, if you want to break the self-sufficiency model, you must reduce the cost of transportation, otherwise, the price is too high, and people will not buy you.

"What do you think, proprietor?"

After the introduction, Li Tong looked at Guo Dan with some apprehension.

Guo Dan retracted his gaze and said thoughtfully: "It sounds very good, but it depends on the actual effect, and your plan involves a wide range, and every step must be in place to reduce the cost of transportation, which is very difficult, I think that if you take this way, there will be such and such problems during transportation." ”

Li Tong listened, looked a little depressed, and nodded: "I also know this, but ......." ”

Guo Dan interrupted him, "But everything is difficult at the beginning, we must persevere, we must be prepared to overcome difficulties, we can't say that when we encounter a little difficulty, we will deny everything about ourselves, your method is absolutely feasible, the key is whether you can insist on yourself and continue to improve, I support you." ”

Li Tong immediately turned his worries into joy, and immediately promised: "Please rest assured, the proprietor, I will continue to improve and strive to be the most perfect." ”

"There is no such thing as perfection, only perfection."

Guo Dan shrugged his shoulders and said with a straight face: "But there is one point, I think you need to change it." ”

Li Tong hurriedly asked, "I don't know what the proprietor is talking about?" ”

"Just be considerate of your proprietor, the proprietor's money is not blown by the wind."

Guo Dan smiled bitterly: "You have to roll out all the transportation lines now, I can't come up with so much money, we have to come step by step, and constantly improve." ”

As he spoke, he stood up, picked up a pen from the table, and came to the front of the map: "Just like the northbound transportation line, although it is relatively close to Jingshi from Zhangde Mansion and is a straight line, this route is far less important than the canal line, and a large number of goods will still go to Tianjin, so the line of Zhangde Mansion can be omitted."

In this way, I can concentrate my financial resources and build a large number of warehouses in Linqing and Tianjin for our transshipment. And Linqing leads directly to the south of the Yangtze River, so the route from Kaifeng Mansion to the south can also be omitted. At the same time, our main customers are in Mongolia, and the route is mainly Shanxi and Shaanxi in the northwest, while Huaiqingfu, Sichuan and Shu in the southwest are not much goods at present, so they can also be omitted for the time being. ”

As he spoke, he drew as he pruned like a branch and leaf, and after a while, the satellite transportation route on the map was pruned by Guo Dan into two wings and spread, which happened to be the two places he had run recently.

He can't tell his plan, in that case, Zhangde Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion will know that your Weihui Mansion must have something to do with the Daimyo Mansion and Shanxi, and he can only cover it up with professionalism.

Li Tong frowned and said: "Although the proprietor is reasonable, but Zhangde and Kaifeng also have goods with us, which cannot be omitted." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "I will talk to those businessmen about this, our Weihui Mansion currently has limited financial resources and limited output, and it cannot be supplied to the whole country, so everything is prioritized, first for the main market, for us, the most important thing is Mongolia, Liaodong and Jiangnan, the three big markets, and the rest will be said slowly." ”

Li Tong thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "I know, I'll make some adjustments right away." ”

"Good!"

Guo Dan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Your plan is definitely feasible, it depends on your ability to overcome the difficulties and persevere." ”

Li Tong smiled embarrassedly, but the feeling of being affirmed was very wonderful.

Although the transportation of Weihui Mansion is all controlled by Guo Dan, it is the businessman who produces the goods, and if the goods are designated to be sent to Kaifeng Mansion, Guo Dan cannot fail to send them, so he has to negotiate with those wealthy businessmen.

Without waiting for Li Tong to come up with a specific plan, Guo Dan took the transportation route opened by these two wings to hold a meeting with those wealthy businessmen.

"Virtuous nephew, this is not appropriate."

As soon as Qin Zhuang heard Guo Dan's transportation plan, he immediately said: "The three mansions of Zhangde, Kaifeng, and Huaiqing are adjacent to Weihui Mansion, but there is no transportation to these three mansions. ”

The rest of the wealthy businessmen also nodded.

Wei Huifu was born in Henan Province, but he does not do business in Henan Province, which sounds a little outrageous.

Guo Dan smiled bitterly: "You misunderstood, I'm not saying that I won't do business in these places, but fat people can't eat it in one bite, this meal has to be eaten one bite at a time!" These three mansions, apart from being close to us, are not of much help to the prospects of our Weihui Mansion.

But if we lose any market in Jiangnan, Liaodong and Mongolia, it will be a huge loss for us, not to mention Liaodong and Mongolia, our current business is basically from these two places, and Jiangnan, in the future, the main food supply of our Weihui Mansion may come from Jiangnan.

We're just getting started, I have limited money, you have limited production, we can't satisfy all the markets at the same time, so we have to make some trade-offs, give up some of the secondary markets, put the main money into the three main markets, hold on to the three markets, and wait until we grow further, and then think about the others. ”

These wealthy businessmen still seemed a little hesitant when they made eye contact with each other.

Duan Changcun suddenly asked, "Does it mean that we won't have dealings with Kaifeng Mansion and other state capitals for the time being?" ”

"Of course not."

Guo Danzhi shook his head and said: "I don't have the right to ask you to do business with whom, not to do business with anyone, I just think that doing this will be more beneficial to the prospects of our Weihui Mansion, if everyone is against it, I will also open up these transportation routes, but this will definitely affect these three main transportation routes, and the cost of transportation is not small." ”

Uncle Xu, a Jin merchant, said: "In the final analysis, it's still a matter of money, so you can let others do this transportation business, I know many businessmen, and they are very interested in this." ”

They Jin merchants went south and north, and the goods were transported by themselves, and they were really interested in this business, but Guo Dan announced a monopoly early on, although they were also a little unhappy, but Weihui Mansion was too important to them, and they didn't want to cause trouble to Guo Dan.

But now that Guo Dan has taken the initiative, he will not let go of this opportunity.

Guo smiled lightly: "You all know what I am, I don't like to do a lot of things, the whole Weihui Mansion, the only thing I control is transportation, this is mainly because the transportation is not carried out in Weihui Mansion, but in other state capitals, I left it to do it myself, if everyone agrees, I can not engage in this transportation, you will do it, because the money is too tiring to make."

But there is one thing, I want to make it clear, if there is any problem with the goods outside, I will help you, but I will never take any responsibility, you have to coordinate with the transport team yourself. ”

Uncle Xu said excitedly: "This is easy to say, just write the compensation on the contract first." ”

If I knew you meant, we would have stood up a long time ago.

Duan Changcun immediately said: "I can't see it, do you know how much my shipload of goods is worth?" If there is a real problem, the average businessman can't afford to pay at all, and the person who delivers the goods will definitely run, our Weihui Mansion is a heavy contract, but other places are not heavy, this transportation must be in the hands of Guo Xian's nephew, I can rest assured. ”

Qin Zhuang nodded straight and said: "Brother Duan is reasonable, anyway, we are mainly supplying to Mongolia at present, and the other three provinces are just some bits and pieces, which is not profitable or important, as long as the goods can be sold." ”

Uncle Xu San is still a little unwilling, they Jin merchants don't like transportation to be completely controlled by Guo Dan, just like now, if Guo Dan doesn't go there, the goods have to go around in a circle to pass, and said with a smile: "If you are not at ease, then you can also let the buyer transport the goods by yourself, and pay the money first to pull the goods, so that you will not bear the loss." ”

Qin Zhuang said: "Xu San, don't forget, we are also the biggest buyers. ”

“......！”

Third Uncle Xu was speechless for a moment.

Zhou Feng said: "Okay, okay, just do what Guo Xian's nephew said, step by step, wait until you have money, and then it's not too late to arrange these transportation lines." ”

The vast majority of businessmen nodded in support.

They all know that other officials are unhappy with them, if they transport themselves, if they are seized by the government, it will be all over, they can't confront the government, in this, only Guo Dan can do it, they are different from the Jin merchants, they are engaged in industry, not reselling goods, of course they are not willing to take this risk.

PS: Restore two more, ask for a wave of support。。。。。